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Aside from these various basket utensils and implements there are the three kinds of fish traps described in the section on fishing. There are also three varieties of basket-work hats. The rain hat called "seg-fi'," is made in Bontoc, and may be in imitation of those worn nearer the western coast.
The men of the Bontoc area also have a basket-work, conical rain hat. It is waterproof, being covered with beeswax. It is called "seg-fi'," and is worn only when it rains, at which time the suk'-lang is often not removed. About the age of 10 the boys frequently affect a girdle. These girdles are of four varieties.
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